Mike is setting everyone up for heartache

[Hoofhearted]

(03-28-2017, 10:56 PM)Whatever Wrote: PBS is a recent enough structure that when the Bengals lease expires, renovations and upgrades may be enough, but they will need to be made.  Who is going to pay for those?  Brown has already compromised and put millions into stadium upgrades for the new video board and WiFi despite the fact that the lease agreement states that the county is responsible for all stadium upgrades.  However, how much money can he reasonably be expected to put into a building he's renting, but doesn't own?

The fact that he's putting money into the stadium when he doesn't have to seems to indicate that he doesn't want to move and isn't going to stick the taxpayers with the whole bill, so things could potentially be worked out, but you don't want to see it get to the point where Cincinnati is in a bidding war with one or more markets to keep the team.

I guess. But he spent 2.5 million on a 10 million dollar scoreboard, and 4 million on a 16 million dollar stadium improvement deal. As soon as the county starts running out of money, things could get ugly.